April 19 - Rainy Ride

Since it was a little cloudy today and it wasn't too hot all of us kids decided to go for a ride. It started out pretty nice, lots of laughs and fun.

Janessa on Shorty.

Kacy on Rusty (Gabe and Kacy switched off)

Zach on Libby and Banner following along.

Garrett and Shea riding our neighbor's horse Pepper. 

Garrett and Shea loving the new ride.

We are finally getting some green here, even though the green is in a field that is watered.

Banner ended up with all the speed of his father and his mother together. Libby has a hard time keeping up with him.

Shorty was very much of a gentleman and gave Janessa a wonderful ride.

Rusty as always did excellent.

All Libby and Banner (and Zach) wanted to do was race again.

The whole crew and Banner trying to Photo bomb.

We live in a place where this could be a few minute shower, a small drizzle that lasts for hours, nothing, or a major rain storm that lasts forever. Guess which one it turned out to be?

If you guessed that it was a major rain storm, you would be correct. Thank goodness there was some hay bales from last year out in a field. We all got cover from the storm for quite a while, but we decided that it would probably go on for a while. Kacy and Zach went about half a mile (that would be my guess, we couldn't exactly clock it :) to a farmer that owns a gator that we could use to bring home the wet saddles. Kacy dropped Zach off and went up the house which was a mile away to bring the car down so that we could lead the horses home (one of the horses, Pepper, ended up breaking his bridle, so he was a little hard to ride). We all ended up home safe, sound, and all very wet and tired. After all the horses were put away and the chores done we ate a simple supper and went to bed early.

Mr. Toothless is having quite the adventure.

Thank God that Pepper and Shorty got along really well so we had no horse fights.

And this would be the sun set and the break in the storm, Janessa took this picture while we were still out in the field.

Can you think of anything else that could have happened for this to be more of an adventure?